The
minute we decide we are incapable of keeping one of God's commands, we are
cooked. We have released ourselves to
Satan to do with us however he wishes.
There only two options at every point of decision which has been
outlined in Scripture; we are tools of Satan or friends of God. The broad categories of acting in life
are: love the Lord your God with all
your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself. We weave in and out of these points of reference
throughout the day. Is this thought or
action “loving God”? Is what I am
pondering or doing loving my neighbor as myself? The more we live in Christ, the growing level
of habit these two ways of being will become.
But at first, and perhaps at first for a very long time, we will have to
process thoroughly what we do and think to see if we are fitting into the life
of loving God and loving our neighbor.
Who has the mind or will for such a monumental project? You do if you are in Christ. When you are born again, the Lord joins
Himself to you and the mind of Christ works within your mind so that together
you can do whatever God has planned for you.
That of course does not mean we will!
We can shut down our Lord's mind by believing it does not matter what we
do with ourselves. We are then
"the captain". There is a
terrible price to pay for that sort of determination. All the wreckage of Satan's evil in the
Garden becomes ours also to inflict upon the world. It is no small thing to not love the Lord your
God with all your heart, soul and mind or to not love your neighbor as
yourself. Satan would love for you to
think it is...that it really does not matter what you do right now. The devil's lie through and through is that
these moments of life are insignificant.
If they were, then God would just excuse Himself from the world time to
time but He doesn't because at every instant He is bringing salvation into
it. Conversely, Satan is bringing
damnation everywhere he can whenever he finds a moment available to him. You are the portal through which either God
or Satan enter a world full of desperate lives. What you decide about loving God with all
your heart soul and mind and loving your neighbor as yourself determines who it
is that has sway in your specific place of influence.
Give
attention to the entrance of the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary. Ezekiel 44: 5b NIV
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